sid67ii
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I have a 55 gallon tank that I have had set up since early December. I have about 50# of lr, and a deep aragonite bed at one end getting shallower as it goes across the bottom (from about five inches at one end to about 1 inch at the other end). I cycled it very slowly, and my water has always tested very well. I got three hermit crabs, an emerald crab, and two turbo snails to keep it clean. Now I will get to my problem.
For my first fish, I bought a pair of engineer gobies. I know they get big and a lot of people don't like them, but they reminded me (especially the fully grown description) of the dragon goby in my freshwater tank. I also got a peppermint shrimp.
My peppermint shrimp disappeared within a few days, and was never seen again. One of the engineer gobies disappeared just a few days after that. I don't know about the peppermint shrimp. As far as the goby, I had to pull my rocks out at one point to find a sea hare that had been in there, so they are unfortunately on top of the substrate (at the shallow end), so I suspect it dug under one that shifted and squished him.
The other goby is doing just fine, except for being a scaredy fish and never going far from his den.
I left the tank alone for a while to make sure that any waste produced by rotting dead fish would have time to dissipate. I have checked the water, it has been fine since then.
Yesterday I bought two new fish; a flame hawk and a percula clown. The clown seemed fine at the store - he ate and everything, but didn't seem toi energetic. He was in a tank with a tang that was harassing him a bit, so we chalked his lack of energy up the tang. I think it is important to state that he was still swimming around and ate a bit when fed, he just wasn't as energetic as ones in other tanks. We bought him mostly because we felt bad for him getting picked on, and thought we would be doing him a favor.
Last night he was doing fine.
This morning when I woke up, he was gone. Simply gone. I haven't taken the rocks out, but I've looked at them from all angles, and can not see him ANYWHERE. The hermit crabs and emerald crabs aren't acting funny, either (like hiding in one spot eating a fish).
Do you think he swam into some of the gobies burrows and vanished?
My tank isn't completely covered - could he jump out of it? The water is about an inch and a half from the top, with a slight overhang. The gap is only about two inches wide. Can clowns jump like that? I haven't read they could, but who knows. If he did jump out, one of the cats probably could have gotten him. (the cats can't get on top of the tank, though).
Do you think he burrowed down into the sand bed, or into some tonga rock in the one place you can't see him?
Any help would be appreciated. I know this sounds like one of those "a man is hanging alone in a room with no one around and a puddle on the floor" things, sorry.
For my first fish, I bought a pair of engineer gobies. I know they get big and a lot of people don't like them, but they reminded me (especially the fully grown description) of the dragon goby in my freshwater tank. I also got a peppermint shrimp.
My peppermint shrimp disappeared within a few days, and was never seen again. One of the engineer gobies disappeared just a few days after that. I don't know about the peppermint shrimp. As far as the goby, I had to pull my rocks out at one point to find a sea hare that had been in there, so they are unfortunately on top of the substrate (at the shallow end), so I suspect it dug under one that shifted and squished him.
The other goby is doing just fine, except for being a scaredy fish and never going far from his den.
I left the tank alone for a while to make sure that any waste produced by rotting dead fish would have time to dissipate. I have checked the water, it has been fine since then.
Yesterday I bought two new fish; a flame hawk and a percula clown. The clown seemed fine at the store - he ate and everything, but didn't seem toi energetic. He was in a tank with a tang that was harassing him a bit, so we chalked his lack of energy up the tang. I think it is important to state that he was still swimming around and ate a bit when fed, he just wasn't as energetic as ones in other tanks. We bought him mostly because we felt bad for him getting picked on, and thought we would be doing him a favor.
Last night he was doing fine.
This morning when I woke up, he was gone. Simply gone. I haven't taken the rocks out, but I've looked at them from all angles, and can not see him ANYWHERE. The hermit crabs and emerald crabs aren't acting funny, either (like hiding in one spot eating a fish).
Do you think he swam into some of the gobies burrows and vanished?
My tank isn't completely covered - could he jump out of it? The water is about an inch and a half from the top, with a slight overhang. The gap is only about two inches wide. Can clowns jump like that? I haven't read they could, but who knows. If he did jump out, one of the cats probably could have gotten him. (the cats can't get on top of the tank, though).
Do you think he burrowed down into the sand bed, or into some tonga rock in the one place you can't see him?
Any help would be appreciated. I know this sounds like one of those "a man is hanging alone in a room with no one around and a puddle on the floor" things, sorry.
